It's been calm enough to swim outside the reef lately.  Lots of fishy action- but murky and hard to distinguish the players from the background.  The Nurse Sharks are always cooperative, though.

great lightening storm last night!

A lovely Nurse Shark- big enough to spot from a distance.  It awoke from its nap, slowly swam off- and then rolled over and gave its back a good scratch on the sand.

yay- camera works under water!  still some issues with smaller creatures unwilling to hold a pose. 

at one point we were ALL home at the same time- except Donny, in far-off Buffalo.  But we visited.  A rare treat.

more pix!

so we just hung out and cooked!
This is what goes on here:  trips to the market, discussions of food. looking up recipes, cooking, and then eating.  And cleaning up, while making a shopping list.  
I love the first world:  when rhubarb is called for, you go out and pick some.  Or, failing that, buy some.

Fun at Niagara Falls- it had to be the windiest, coldest day in August ever.  We were drenched by the time we got ON the boat.  Afterwards, instead of hiking the area, we dried off at the culinary academy conveniently located among the souvenir shops.  Andrew has a summer job at the falls as a roving naturalist, but as he works at the bottom of 348 steps, we didn't visit him at work.